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• Women wear the breeches.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vice
  he had two distinct persons in him....
• Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Penny wise, pound foolish.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Rob Peter, and pay Paul.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...